Nov. 4, 2018 - Steve Pieczenik
04:34
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| Hi, I'm Dr. | |
| Pachenik and we're about two days away from the election so what I really want to talk about is what I call the political operative or the political tool. | |
| In a more common verse we would say a snitch and the person I picked out was Michael Cohen who was the lawyer for Donald Trump for about six years from 2012 to 2018 and as many of you know He had been involved on behalf of Trump with Stormy Daniels, | |
| all kinds of payoffs to the Soviet Union or to Russia and to the Ukrainians and all kinds of other miscreant behaviors. | |
| But the key point for me was, what makes a man like Michael Cohen? | |
| What makes a snitch? | |
| And the reason I ask that is, that is an archetype in the United States. | |
| And when I say an archetype, We have codified the snitch in movies like On the Waterfront. | |
| Marlon Brando played a snitch. | |
| He testified against his own brother, against the Union, how corrupt they were. | |
| And that was based on the director's own experience, Aliyah Kazan, who testified against all of his colleagues in the HUAC committee, the House of American Activities Committee. | |
| So I wondered what makes a Michael Cohen become what he is. | |
| Number one, I found out he's not very bright. | |
| And the reason I can say that is he attended school at the American University in Washington, D.C. I happen to have been jogging there every day. | |
| But the point of fact is I knew much of their faculty and a lot of their students and this was a really third-rate school and it was basically for the very wealthy Jewish kids and other wealthy kids who really couldn't get anywhere else. | |
| As a matter of fact, Michael Cohen was true to form. | |
| He went to school in a Porsche and eventually got a Bentley. | |
| Now, the irony of a Michael Cohen or the snitch is he's not born From sociopathic parents. | |
| He's not born from a corrupt institution or a corrupt parent. | |
| His father came out of the Holocaust, became a surgeon, and his mother was a nurse. | |
| So how in fact does a Michael Cohen end up to be an individual without courage, without conviction, without a moral center, without intellectual gravitas, and basically is all invested in self-aggrandizement, which leads to self-destruction. | |
| And the evidence for this was that very early on, he wanted to be a certain leader in the Democratic Party. | |
| So he voted for Dukakis, got involved with Obama, and voted for him, and then decided that he couldn't make it in the Democratic Party, so he ran on the Republican ticket for some position in New York State and New York City. | |
| Well, he didn't make that. | |
| Then he decided he would buy a couple apartments in the Trump administration, And here was the major, major mistake of a sociopath like him. | |
| And what he did was to ingratiate himself to a man like Donald Trump, whose antennas are born to detect sociopaths, sycophants, and anyone who wants to try to manipulate Trump, In order to garner any favors. | |
| And so what Cohen did was to become his lawyer, Trump's lawyer, and became the confidant. | |
| And he received all kinds of secrets, all kinds of duties that he had to do on behalf of his client. | |
| And there was client lawyer privilege. | |
| But at the same time... | |
| Cohen had to be so grandiose that he would go on ABC and say, without me, Trump really couldn't have done a lot of things. | |
| And thanks to me, I was able to affect Trump's very great successes. | |
| Now, anybody who understands Trump understands one thing. | |
| That's not a reality. | |
| And as Aeschylus said, And that famous tragedian, the man who was the playwright in Greece, said, I detest all traitors. | |
| In the same way, Mao Tse-Tung said, the higher the monkey goes, the further he falls. | |
| And Cohen really fell down. |
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